There are all-time dance classics, and there are all-time dance classics rehashed. This set showcases a distinct and fresh sound that's too deep for dance radio, too bouncy to sit still to, and yet all too familiar to most of you just the same. You burned these in CDs not too long ago. But since then, a few hot new dj's have come, while the few tired ones stepped down. This set has songs older than iPod, rehashed with that harder, faster sound. If this set doesn't redefine contemporary electronic style for you, then dance music is just not in you.
1998. Tiesto is one great DJ but no one can argue that German DJs Niels van Gogh and Thomas Gold succeeded in setting their rehash of "Silence" by Delerium (featuring vocals by Sarah McLachlan and remixes by Tiesto) into an essential track on its own. Given that "Silence" is accepted to be a trance music classic (and one of the best of this style), the duo's pounding progressive house reproduction, which cleverly preserves the purity in McLachlan's vocals intact, is surely dance music redefined.
Da Hool's rehash of his own track, "Meet Her At the Love Parade", seems like it registers at a totally different sound frequency than the 1998 Berlin Dance/Love Parade anthem. Given the track's second assault of EU dance charts a decade later, it's fair to say that a whole new party is digging this track. And they could very well be clothed. This is the same manner I am falling in love again with "Show Me Love" by Robin S. It's less camp this time around though. The dark new sound is sampled in not one, but two dance chart-toppers with Germany's Michael Mind, and UK's Sweet Mercy on deck. I feel that these three ubiquitous groooves seem to showcase what the 2009 sound is about.
The thumping bass and electric upper pitches dominant in this playlist seem to blend harder core songs like Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' "I Love Rock & Roll" and Nirvana's "Lithium" rather seamlessly too. Even synthy keyboards, blaring horns, and cartoon-like soundloops from tracks like Steve Angelo's "Gypsy", Thomas Gold's latest hit-in-the-making "Rising Sun", and the Tamperer's "Feel Good 2008" flows non-cacophonously. From hard rock at the top, then loungy/ambient at the bottom. But I'm the type who will dance without excuse. I sense a set's bad transition from track to track because it can get horridly disturbing.
1992. The last track is a non-treatment of a classic that's just been recently re-released. "Plastic Dreams" by Jaydee is just as essential today in its original form. Widely accepted as one of the best tracks in house music, "Plastic Dreams" caps this January set which started with trance music's best song. In the re-release of "Plastic Dreams", a completely rehashed version of the song is included but I opted for the Original Mix. Some tracks are just well ahead of its time. They serve to highlight what this bigger, deeper and freshly distinct sounds in this set may become!
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Thanks to Feroshka and Vagine for bringing to my attention some cool tracks. ASND
Nice collections of all-time dance classics!
Trance imprints a very profound touch on listener’s emotions. It has the power to instill pure happiness and joy into the listener.
Miss Think you gots to have excuses to watch kids live never because this is the onez, mama. This list is ovah for the ovah. Miss Think you need to give them the 25 dollah Beautiful Think Lounge anthem list in the next show out. Signed, Feroshka.
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